Best memoirs for your favorite electronics/tech companies

[bigdawg]

Just the other day I found the HP memory project http://hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/company/memories_home.htm which has memoirs of some key people who worked there for 40+ years. HP is a very special company for me; I used their equipment in my high school (instead of tek!!) for my electronics based science project (it was a clap switch), and then in college and grad school even after changing my major a few times, I ended up using HP GC and HPLC; so it was safe to say that I got great kicks reading about how it all started and how they slowly expanded to include such a vast lineup of instruments.

I am wondering if any of y'all know of other projects of these kind for your own favorite companies. Examples could probably include IBM, bell labs, Varian (used lot o their stuff too) etc.

[helius]

folklore.org (Silicon Valley/Apple)
steveblank.com (Ardent, SuperMac, Radius)
www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/ (Sun, NeXT)
www.jwz.org (Lucid, Netscape)
http://therealmccrea.com/2014/01/09/january-1994-a-very-good-month/ (Silicon Graphics)

[bigdawg]

Great links helius; I'll check it out.

I found a document on early history of Varian:

http://www.cpii.com/docs/files/Varian%20Associates%20-%20An%20Early%20History.pdf

[rfeecs]

I second folklore.org for stories about the Macintosh development: http://www.folklore.org/

If you like HP history, HP9825.com has some great stories about early HP computer development: http://www.hp9825.com/

The transistor museum has a lot of oral histories of early transistor development: http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm

[Vgkid]

IET labs support documentation of General Radio's(GenRad) history, and product information.
http://www.ietlabs.com/genrad/index.html/
If you are a member of their Yahoo usergroups, I find it interesting how the members/employees tend to help each other.

[Rupunzell]

http://silicongenesis.stanford.edu/complete_listing.html

http://www.vintagetek.org/2011/11/winning-with-people-author-oregonian-article/





There is a LOT more...


Bernice